Loving and Hating Mathematics : : Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life /

Loving and Hating Mathematics : : Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life / / Vera John-Steiner, Reuben Hersh.

Mathematics is often thought of as the coldest expression of pure reason. But few subjects provoke hotter emotions--and inspire more love and hatred--than mathematics. And although math is frequently idealized as floating above the messiness of human life, its story is nothing if not human; often, i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hersh, Reuben,
John-Steiner, Vera,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 61 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mathematical Beginnings
  • 2. Mathematical Culture
  • 3. Mathematics as Solace
  • 4. Mathematics as an Addiction: Following Logic to the End
  • 5. Friendships and Partnerships
  • 6. Mathematical Communities
  • 7. Gender and Age in Mathematics
  • 8. The Teaching of Mathematics: Fierce or Friendly?
  • 9. Loving and Hating School Mathematics
  • Conclusions
  • Review of the Literature
  • Biographies
  • Notes
  • Index of Names
  • General Index

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